I trade because Daniel Day Lewis had a passable performance in <i>The Scarlet Letter</i>, which was written by Arthur Miller himself. Not a bad adaptation for the screen, although Wynona Ryder makes me want to punch myself in the face and sell market at the low of every pullback.

However, DDL had a masterful performance as Daniel Plainview in <i>There Will Be Blood</i>. That brawl in the bowling alley at the end? Bizarre, but potent. Driven to the point of madness, with a brutal minded singleness of purpose. This has me buying dips.

Have you ever read Cormac McCarthy? I have not, but my girlfriend has several of his books, and I keep eying them every time I stay over. I recently read one about Donald Crowhurst instead. Quite sad! But plenty of hilarious trading parallels. I first saw the book mentioned on ET.

I have a feeling that if I picked up one of McCarthy's books, I'd basically use a straightforward moving average envelope for limit orders on slow or choppy periods, reducing the aggravation of ES's back-and-fill tendency.